Determination of the zeta potential for highlycharged colloidal suspensions高度Zeta电位的测定 荷电胶体悬浮液.pdfVIP

Downloaded from / on August 20, 2018 Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A (2011) 369, 2546–2554 doi:10.1098/rsta.2011.0024 Determination of the zeta potential for highly charged colloidal suspensions BY GIOVANNI GIUPPONI* AND IGNACIO PAGONABARRAGA Departament de Fisica Fonamental, Universitat de Barcelona, Carrer Marti i Franques, 08028 Barcelona, Spain We compute the electrostatic potential at the surface, or zeta potential z, of a charged particle embedded in a colloidal suspension using a hybrid mesoscopic model. We show that, for weakly perturbing electric fields, the value of z obtained at steady state during electrophoresis is statistically indistinguishable from z in thermodynamic equilibrium. We quantify the effect of counter-ion concentration on z. We also evaluate the relevance of the lattice resolution for the calculation of z and discuss how to identify the effective electrostatic radius. Keywords: zeta potential; electrophoresis; lattice Boltzmann method; mesoscopic models; electrostatic radius 1. Introduction A quantitative understanding of the electrostatic interactions between charged macro-ions in solution is fundamental to comprehending a plethora of physical phenomena spanning from biology to material science, for example, the macroscopic and rheological properties of colloidal suspensions [1,2]. The details of such interactions are difficult to capture, as the effective interactions are determined by the interplay between the different components dissolved in solution (macro-ions, counter-ions, salt ions) and the s